William Quantrill

William Clarke Quantrill (31 July 1837-6 June 1865) was the leader of the secessionist Quantrill's Raiders under the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. His riders massacred 200 people in the Kansas town of Lawrence in August 1863, with Jesse James being a member of his raiders. Quantrill himself would be mortally wounded in a Union ambush in Kentucky in May 1865 after the end of the war, and he died of his wounds in June.

Biography
William Clarke Quantrill was born on 31 July 1837 in Dover, Ohio on 31 July 1837, and he became a schoolteacher at the young age of sixteen. In 1856, he moved to Indiana after shooting a man in self-defense while working in a lumber yard to pay off some of his family's debts, and he moved to Kansas in 1859. After his school there closed in 1860, he joined several outlaw gangs, and he would join the pro-Confederate Cherokee tribesmen in Oklahoma in 1861. He fought alongside them in Missouri before deserting from Sterling Price's army to form his own group of ruffians, Quantrill's Raiders. They massacred 200 people in Lawrence, Kansas in August 1863, and the raiders operated independently of the Confederate States Army. They continued the fight even after the surrender of Robert E. Lee in April 1865, and it would not be until June 1865 that the war would end for Quantrill. On 10 May 1865, his raiders were ambushed at Wakefield Farm, near Louisville, Kentucky; Quantrill was mortally wounded, and he died of his wounds on 6 June 1865.